Word: disgust
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...best of the lot is the much anthologized Kneel to the Rising Sun, a grim and eloquent expression of disgust that ends with another dead Negro. One of the things the author says, without raising his voice, is that men will wince at the torture of a dog and then join a shotgun mob. It is not a story that can be read calmly, but it is written calmly and well...
...forgotten Wodehouse's broadcasts, the controversy flared back with much of its wartime acrimony. It was ignited by Fellow Novelist Evelyn Waugh. In a BBC broadcast on the 20th anniversary of Connor's explosion, Waugh offered "An Act of Homage and Reparation," designed to "express the disgust the BBC has always felt for the injustice of which they were guiltless and complete repudiation of the charges so ignobly made." A far-right Tory himself. Waugh declared that attempts to brand Wodehouse a fascist were part of a wartime conspiracy to "direct the struggle for national survival into proletarian...
...several places the highway is disintegrating. A few months ago Prince Sihanouk tried to drive from Pnompenh to the seaport of Sihanoukville. His car bounced over ruts, thumped into potholes. He turned back in disgust, took a helicopter instead. U.S. Ambassador William C. Trimble fired off a cable to Washington reporting that "the deplorable condition of the highway may deal a severe blow to U.S. prestige and good faith." Last week, taking a hint from Cambodian press suggestions that U.S.-financed repairs might help to "maintain the reputation of American technicians," U.S. engineers prepared to rebuild up to 40 miles...
...Charlie Carmody is a gritty figure out of the immigrant past who clawed his way to wealth as a real estate operator. He can reminisce for hours on the joys of collecting, or extracting, the rent from hard payers. Charlie's son Hugh enters the priesthood, possibly in disgust at his father's tactics, but comes to hate his parishioners as much as he does his father, and dies of a hemorrhaging ulcer. Another son cravenly sponges off the old man. The eldest daughter becomes Charlie's spinster slave, while a spunkier daughter, Helen, marries a pompous...
...Cuban tractor deal were hotly debated in the U.S. (see THE NATION), but in Latin American eyes, the proposal represents a monumental propaganda setback for Castro. Throughout the hemisphere, which Castro hopes to lure into sympathy with his Marxist revolution, the response to his ransom demand was one of disgust. Wrote Rio's moderately liberal O Globo, whose circulation is the biggest in Brazil: "Hitler wanted to trade Jews for trucks; Fidel Castro wants to trade Cubans for tractors. It may be that this shows progress or superiority of Communism over Naziism, but we cannot...